Sharks, sentence 1

Those teeth sit in rows like a conveyor belt; when one breaks a new one moves forward, so some sharks lose tens of thousands in a lifetime, and that is why a sandy beach can be full of tiny black shark teeth.

Who acts: teeth, one, new one, sharks, that, sandy beach · What happens: sit, break, move forward, lose, be · To what, where: rows, tens, lifetime

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth, one, new one, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 teeth	det
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 rows	case
5	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 belt	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 belt	det
8	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belt	compound
9	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rows	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 breaks	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 breaks	advmod
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breaks	nsubj
13	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 moves	nsubj
17	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 breaks	ccomp
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 moves	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lose	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 lose	advmod
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 sharks	det
22	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lose	nsubj
23	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 moves	conj
24	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lose	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 thousands	case
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tens	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 lifetime	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lifetime	det
29	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lose	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 why	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 why	cc
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 why	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 why	cop
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sit	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 beach	det
36	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beach	amod
37	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 full	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 full	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 full	cop
40	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 why	acl:relcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 teeth	case
42	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 teeth	amod
43	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 teeth	amod
44	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 teeth	compound
45	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 full	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	that teeth		rows like a conveyor belt		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
2	break	present	one				tree rules
3	move forward	present	a new one			forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	lose	present	some sharks	tens of thousands	a lifetime		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Eventuality
5	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
6	is	can	a sandy beach			of tiny black shark teeth; full property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:028-sharks.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

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